well the vaccinations are over for another 2 months. Ughhh, it's hard to listen to your little one scream hey?? Our dr is lovely and just as he was about to give the first injection he turns to me and says "Are you ready mum?" I busied myself with wrapping up a dirty nappy!! But because I got the combined vaccination (DTP, HIB, Hep B, polio) he only had to have 2 injections - that and the pneunococcil one. Mind you, the combined one cost me $147.50, although I got a pharmacy reciept and can claim a proportion back on private health insurance. I thought it was worth it to pay the money to reduce the injections by 1 and I was also keener on my boy getting the injectable polio rather than the sabine (oral). Apparantely in the very near future all polio vaccines will be the injectable, but there is a shortage and there will be a bit of a dealy in getting them through. In the meantime, the orals are what is being given (free at MCH centres and councils/shires) until it comes through.
The topic of conversation at the mums group today was preventing accidents and safeproofing (as much as you can) your home for the bubs. The nurse made good sense when she said that we should be one stepo ahead of our child's development. Hence, we should be safeproofing our houses for a 6 - 12 month old now, so you are not doing the jobs when the bub actually is 6 - 12 months old. We got some really good literature which I am going to review over a cuppa soon.
So what are your girls and boys giving their dads for fathers day?? Thomas is giving his dad a plaster mould of his feet and hands...well, sort of. I bought a kit which is a photo frame on one side and a area to stick a plaster ipression on the other. I went to my mum's place the other day to do it (so DH wouldn't find out) and we had a hell of a time trying to get an impression of Pup's hand. He just wouldn't open his fist, the little bugger. And by the time i wrenched his hand open, the bloody plaster had dried. So we mixed up a fresh batch (thank god mum had some, as I had buggered the lot that came with the kit!) and we tired again. no luck. So I tried getting a footprint, but that was just as hard cause as soon as Pup's foot touched the plster, he either pulled his foot away, or really stomped it down and squished plaster everywhere. Sheesh #-o . In the end I got 2 ok impressions of his feet and for good measure I shoved his fist into the plaster as well. I think I'm going to have to tell DH what it actually is though - it's a bit hard to see!!! Sort of looks like a mash of plaster! But I'm sure "daddy" will love it. And we can always update it in a few months when I can get Pup to open his hand!!
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